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One brief spark of hope - ruthlessly extinguished »

Fisheries research suggest the older mature fish should be released and angling regulations changed to allow only young fish be taken. Maturity is necessary to fish populations - and youth is less so. Makes us old guys feel good, but college cheerleaders won’t change their preference anytime soon.

Just one more thing to dance around enroute to the crick »

I figured carp and bass would still be plentiful and assumed I could move to Canada before they close the borders. 
We’ve known the Cockroach is a survivor, and now it’ll have company - as the CO2 enriched atmosphere is building a Poison Ivy superstrain.
New research shows the rash-inducing plant appears to be growing faster [...]

The "Shrek Trout" a merit badge for the adventurous »

Another exotic venue to add to your list as the rarest of all trout will debut next year in Dubai.  Genetically engineered to thrive in higher water temperatures, the “Asfar Trout” (Yellow Trout) will be featured on the two community islands of The World, and also the freshwater lagoon of the new Dreamworks theme park, which broke ground [...]

Are you really that good or was your guide wearing a whistle? »

Science gone awry, now it’s torch and pitchfork time…
I yawned at the stem cell debate and didn’t blink at the prospect of genetic manipulation of crops, but Pavlovian fish sounds like something worth firebombing a clinic or two. Fish taught to swim into a net when a tone is sounded - it’s every guide’s dream [...]

That’s OK, we slept since then »

We ate all the big stuff, most of the medium sized stuff, and we’re working on the small stuff now. Next comes the really small stuff, those critters so important to the food chain that their absence upsets the entire apple cart.
West coast salmon virtually collapsed this year despite our best lip service, we [...]

Use the frontal lobe, Luke »

It’s like realizing the President of the United States is standing next to you - as you struggle to pull your hands out of your pockets to shake his hand, the suddenness of it all disengages your frontal lobe..
When you wake up in jail, and they remove the Secret Service arsenal from your various orifices [...]

If the Medicine chest is that available, I’ll go with the midwife or shaman - I seen what Princeton can do »

I go to the doctor with assorted ailments and he prescribes I eat a carp a day and call him in the morning?
It’s a familiar theme that we touched on before - but as more evidence appears in the press, we might want to cut the big drug companies out of the mix - [...]

You may want to airbrush out the fish hook if you’re determined to prove your point »

How’s your entomology? The 50 million year old mayfly likely needs to be keyed to genus and species.
..or you can take the shortcut, and hope no one notices you might have bent the rules a bit..
An Islamic text entitled “The Atlas of Creation” has created quite a stir, it purports to show Darwinism doesn’t [...]

Yes, it’ll cost like the Devil - but you’ll want it anyway »

You cut most of your science classes in high school, I’m just paying you back for them misdeeds.
It’ll be plenty expensive, you’ll insist you need them, and when you find out what it’s made from - you’ll rethink the whole “Brownline” genre.
Scientists have developed a self sealing rubber that can be torn, severed and [...]

As if the deck wasn’t stacked against fish already »

Every father will resolve to take their kid fishing, spinach will end it’s run as the worst possible food Mom can serve, Tuna fish is going to be in every middle school lunch pail, and sardines will resume their rightful place on  supermarket shelves.
Fantasy? Not likely, every youngster caught with a girlie mag, or [...]

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